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42-1-18
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 42-1-18 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit | Yakutat (Culture) |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Root | Grass |
| Technique | Basketry | Twined |
| Description | Slightly flaring. Fine spruce root, twined, with four openwork bands of crossed warp twined and two bands of overlaid false embroidery in Shaman's hat pattern. Technical notes: twined, open and close twined, cross-warp, two-strand, three-strand, wrapped weft ("false embroidery"); 13 warps and 17 wefts per square inch. Inverted bottom. |
| Height | 9.4 cm |
| Width | 10 cm |
| Depth | 11 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Ira Reed Estate through Wm. D. Morley Inc., 1942 |
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